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T h e committee on chapters at the Beta Theta P i convention recom-
mended in part in its report:

2. That increased care in the appearance and condition of their houses be
urged upon the chapters, to the end that visitors and alumni in particular may
receive a favorable impression of the chapter efficiency in management, and
that the men may receive the benefit which comes from living in clean and
well-kept quarters. It is especially urged that in the decoration of the houses
and the rooms of the men all pictures, posters, and the like which are indi-
cative of a lapse in refinement or good taste be avoided or removed if used at
present.

5a. That the convention recommended to the consideration of all chapters
the plan now in vogue at Illinois, whereby each member of the chapter is
assessed a small sum monthly throughout the year, the money thus secured
being used to defray the convention expenses of one or more freshmen, who
shall have attained the highest scholarship, shown the greatest interest in col-
lege affairs, and done the most efficient work for the chapter.—Beta Theta Pi.

Every year a chapter should initiate three of four upper classmen. The
fact that a girl developes slowly should not exclude her from ffaternity mem-
bership. Moreover, in electing to membership upper class girls who have de-
veloped slowly or who for any other reasons have not previously been invited
to membership, we are but developing in ourselves that ability to size up
people which is one of the most necessary qualities that a man or a woman
can possess.

And in sizing up candidates, we must beware of the ready-made type. We
want to be sure that all sorts of girls are in our chapters—we need the
scholarly, the gay, the good comrade, the musician, the athletic, the competent
of every sort But we do not want them ready-made; we should not look for
them so. As a fraternity we want to have a part in the growth of the char-
acters of our members.—Arrow of P i Beta Phi.

Henry Sydnor Harrison, the author of "Queed" is a member of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon. He received his start editing the Record and was for a time para-
grapher, receiver, poet and finally editor of the Richmond Times Dispatch.
George Fitch, author of the popular Siwash stories is a Beta Theta Pi from
Knox College.—Crescent of Gamma Phi Beta.

The recent opening of the Nu chapter house and the moving into the new
house of the Psi chapter, calls attention to the fact that now every one of the
43 chapters of the Fraternity occupies a house, with one exception, and that in
most cases the houses are owned by the chapters, the total value of property
of the Fraternity amounting to considerably over three-quarters of a million
dollars. The only chapter in the country not now occupying a house is T a u
Lambda, at New Orleans, but it is hoped and expected that within the year
this chapter will also secure a house, and that Delta Kappa Epsilon can then
report every chapter occupying a home.—Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly,
quoted by Beta Theta Pi.

Fires which destroy fraternity houses are of frequent occurrence. Recently
Phi Gamma Delta has lost houses at Indiana and Tennessee, Kappa Sigma
one at Missouri, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon one at Pennsylvania. Every chap-